Family History

Chapter 7 and 8

When I was, what, 6? I had a sensei too. But I remember him being kinda scary. *sweat drop* Why couldn't I have had this sensei? ;-;

Also, I had told a friend from FFN I'd put her in here. And put in this weird conversation we'd had before...

John=Ed, Matt=Al.

On with the story!

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Sensei greeted the boys outside his door, and herded them into his office. They sat down awkwardly, not knowing what to say that wouldn't seem rude.

"Last class, it was brought to my attention that you are related to a man named Edward Elric. Would you like to know more about him?"

"What do you know about him, Sensei?" Ed asked in surprise when Al was finished with enthusiastically nodding.

"Hopefully, enough to be of use to you."

The senior plopped onto his desk a huge photo album; huge as in length, height, AND width.

"Does he have a knack for scrapbooking or something?" Ed whispered to his brother in disbelief.

"Ssh, Brother! This is important to us!" Al scolded back quietly.

"Alright, boys. Now, when I first met Edward Elric, it was back in the 1950's." Sensei began as he started flipping through the pages.

"DANG."

"Brother!"

"Don't worry about it, Mr. Elric. I know I am at retirement age." The man chuckled. "Ah, here we go. This is me when I was 7, meeting your great-great-grandfather." He passed the heavy book to the students, both gasping when they saw the old photograph. While both Sensei and Edward were at an entirely different age than the boys were accustomed to in it, it was obvious they were indeed the same people. Both smiled a little awkwardly for the camera as their ancestor had a hand on their teacher's shoulder. There was another picture next to it that also included another man who looked like the mini-Sensei, so they assumed he was his father.

"Both he and his brother, Alphonse, lived in Germany together until they decided to move to the United States when Edward turned 19. 5 years later Alphonse went to travel throughout Asia alone, which lasted until he found a girl to take home."

"Where did you meet Edward?" Al asked politely.

"At a national karate championship." Sensei replied with a fond smile. "It happened near where I lived, and my father was already friends with them, so he took me there. I was never really interested in martial arts until then. Imagine my surprise when a man with blond hair and honey eyes, one of the oldest in the contest, stepped onto the mat against another man twice his size. I mean, besides his interesting appearance, he just looked pretty average, TOO average, to be among national champions. I prepared for when the poor blondie was going to be creamed, when he managed to flip his competitor over his shoulder!" Al's jaw dropped while his brother burst out laughing.

"So your dad introduced you to him afterwards?"

"Yes, Edward. I had taken that opportunity to ask him about his style, as it looked like it was specially designed to fight larger people. I felt like I needed that since I used to be pretty short. He taught me a few moves, and was a pretty good teacher, although he was really insensitive with the comments when I tried them myself. It got me annoyed enough that I made a resolve to get good enough at martial arts to beat Edward Elric."

"Did you ever beat him in combat?"

"Nope."

"What about Alphonse? Did you meet him?" Matt inquired.